In 1993, Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa and others in his entourage were killed in a suicide bomb blast.

In 1997, 18 years of Conservative Party rule in Great Britain ended with a Labor Party victory in elections, allowing party leader Tony Blair to succeed John Majors as prime minister.

In 1999, Charismatic, a 31-1 long shot, won the 125th Kentucky Derby.

In 2001, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan was convicted in Birmingham, Ala., in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. He was given four life sentences.

In 2003, U.S. President George W. Bush, speaking from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, declared that major combat in Iraq was over and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced the end of major U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan.

In 2005, five men in Madain, Iraq, confessed to the kidnapping and slaying of British aid worker Margaret Hassan.

In 2008, the U.S. Congress gave final approval to a bill making it illegal for employers and insurance companies to discriminate on the basis of genetic history. (It became law May 24.)

In 2010, thousands of tourists and theatergoers were evacuated from New York's Times Square area for more than 8 hours so police could disarm a malfunctioned bomb found in an SUV, parked with its motor running and smoke coming from rear vents. (Faisal Shahzad was later sentenced to life in prison for the bombing attempt.)

In 2011, al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden, architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the face of global terrorism, was killed in a U.S. midnight commando raid on his compound near the Pakistani capital.

In 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking from Afghanistan in a televised address to Americans, said Afghans will be "fully responsible" for their security by 2014.

In 2013, Chris Kelly of the rap duo Kris Kross died at the age of 34. (The medical examiner’s office in Atlanta later announced the cause of death was a drug overdose.)

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